[lit-ideas] Re: Weltanschauung bias...

  • From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 21:03:07 -0700 (PDT)

Right now the most credible source of information
around is General Sada, Saddam Hussein's former
advisor. When he speaks, we should all shut up.

O.K.


--- Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is true, Eric, and it has bothered me for a
> long time.  I know 
> exactly how quickly I agree with things that confirm
> my world view.  My 
> evidence bar is significantly lower for things I
> expect to agree with.  
> But I can't believe that that isn't true for any one
> who's paid 
> attention for more than forty years.  We can't
> really go out and confirm 
> everything for ourselves and, just as in movie
> reviews, we learn whom we 
> can mostly trust to react as we might.  Often, it's
> all we can do.  So, 
> call me crazy, but I'm more inclined to believe
> Seymour Hersh than 
> George Bush. 
> Ursula
> 
> Eric Yost wrote:
> 
> > Ursula quotes Carl: If we've been bamboozled long
> enough, we tend to 
> > reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no
> longer interested in 
> > finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured
> us.
> >
> > Like jihad, this saying works both ways. If you
> get bamboozled long 
> > enough, you also tend to reject any evidence that
> you're NOT being 
> > bamboozled. It's more ego-syntonic to assume that
> there's only 
> > bamboozling going on.
> >
> >
> > Eric
> > ___
> > Literature was born not the day when a boy crying
> wolf, wolf came 
> > running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big
> gray wolf at his 
> > heels: literature was born on the day when a boy
> came crying wolf, 
> > wolf and there was no wolf behind him. That the
> poor little fellow 
> > because he lied too often was finally eaten up by
> a real beast is 
> > quite incidental. But here is what is important.
> Between the wolf in 
> > the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story
> there is a shimmering 
> > go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the
> art of literature.
> >
> > -Vladimir Nabokov, "Good Readers and Good Writers"
> >
> >
>
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